5thelement
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That’s me most weeks.😂
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It’s going to be a ‘Dark and Stormy’ night here. Bermudan Black Rum, crushed ice and the only Ginger Beer I could find in France,
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Looks like a very straightforward re-pollard of a willow with no overly heavy limbs.
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And you don’t try to turn pollards back into proper trees like Manco does, you re-pollard them.
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Lapsed pollards can be total shit, proper pollards can be works of art. I past these london Planes on the way to football with the boy this morning.
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This course is probably of little interest to anyone in the UK unless they intend to apply a work visa in the EU. The UK Health and Safety Executive/AFAG have recently recognised the ECC/ICC accreditation to be equivalent to that of the UK NPTC chainsaw credentials, so it would certainly be of use to EU nationals who may like to work in the UK.
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I’m pretty sure Margaret Thatcher had the same operation .It was the ‘hands turning into a claw’ that jogged my memory, she kept the horns and tail well hidden though.
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Maybe the OP has 100 grands worth of used chains?
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Even more so when you start screwing up arrangements with your main trading partners.
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That’s a lot of Buckfast.
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When you say Subby, what exactly do you mean? Bonafide Subby running a job with your own kit and responsible for the outcome, using your insurance , or Subby as in hired in glorified labourer? I am neither overworked nor underpaid as I price my own jobs.
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Stop lying the chainsaw on its side, the bar tends to move and slip around more. Sit it flat on its base then put the bar on against the machine, with the tensioner turned right back. There is always been play on the rim/sprocket, you just have to position the chain in the sprocket, not behind it or in front of it, I can’t explain it any simpler.
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My oldest is named Betsy, I regularly tell her she was named after this.
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More Burgundy.
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If your self employed the rates are set by you defendant on your overheads, not by others. if they won’t pay your rates, don’t work for them, if your worth what you are asking you will get it, if you don’t want to work for the rates being offered, don’t. Handy having a safety net from doing so well in the past in times like this.
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I never got into tree work for money, I like trees, I like the job, I like saws, I like the danger. So you think you should be paid more because you chose a career with risk, but bet your earning more than a squaddie. How much do you think you should be earning per day?
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I’m taking my ball in.
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I have a friend in Sweden who has two, she has had the breed for quite a few years. They take a hell of a lot of effort and need a working role to keep them happy, she has them out pulling sleds in between forestry work. There was a vid doing the rounds on FB a while back comparing GS and BS police dogs. The padded suit wearing guy was in the corner of a seated auditorium, the GS weaved through the aisles to launch an attack, the BS vaulted the chairs in a straight line to attack in a fraction of the time, proper agile.
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I did a stint labouring for a well known Steeplejack in Bolton in the mid 90’s. No bother with HSE /Tickets at the time, just got on with it, you would be entering a different world now. Effing hard work in bad weather and pretty scary at times, good crack if your with the right team though. I look back at it with fondness, as I allow myself forget about having to trawl around all the pubs in town on a Friday afternoon looking for my wages.
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Nah, just locked my knees so my legs where dead straight, bolt upright and felled them waist high Arborist style.
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Went through too many chains on that job, I started just felling above stock fence height to save time in the end, bad for me on volume but good for the 360 driver following me up grubbing them out.
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I felled 200+ Oak trees here in France this time last year, every one the same. 😳
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Have you derailed the chain and burred up the drivelinks? Both the 1.3 and 1.5 gauge chain would fit in the standard .325 drive sprocket without issue, only the bar groove/nose sprocket would matter, bar groove and drive link thickness (gauge) need to be compatible.
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poachers Problems with Trespassers, Fly tippers & Poachers?
5thelement replied to Johnboysevern's topic in General chat
Dear God, please save us from the tedious groaning of the woodlandforsale lifestylers. -
Let the father of the murdered girl attach it round his neck. 👍
